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Really minor annoyances


Georgewhitt said:
Not much roughers in Okehampton shippers.

Lang way from the oggin.😉
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Again, risking the wrath of @Tex I had received "advice" from a colleague re my laissez faire attitude to securing for sea. Was hanging to my pit for dear life in the Bay of Biscay when my f*cking safety hat, of all things, catapulted it's way off the top of my locker & smacked me right on me bonce. Knacked an' arl...
 
c032745y said:
Again, risking the wrath of @Tex I had received "advice" from a colleague re my laissez faire attitude to securing for sea. Was hanging to my pit for dear life in the Bay of Biscay when my f*cking safety hat, of all things, catapulted it's way off the top of my locker & smacked me right on me bonce. Knacked an' arl...
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Things have changed marra.

Fuckin "safety hats".

Nee such thing in my Andrew.
 
Scimmy said:
Facebook Reels that have no point or that cut off prior to the expected action taking place. Or, increasingly AI generated content that is absolutely ridiculous, a recent example being fishermen standing on the deck of a ship admiring the enormous prawn that they had caught. The bloody prawn was about four meters long.
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It’s the subtitles that irritate me. One of those shorts on YouTube had Lee Mack presenting an award at (according to him on the subtitles) “The Baptists”





(BAFTAs)
 
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Scimmy said:
Facebook Reels that have no point or that cut off prior to the expected action taking place. Or, increasingly AI generated content that is absolutely ridiculous, a recent example being fishermen standing on the deck of a ship admiring the enormous prawn that they had caught. The bloody prawn was about four meters long.
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I've been watching one particular history AI generated FB page with historical figures and places

It's quite mesmerising that one but I've seen some other really bad ones

I keep thinking though (as am not up on it) is it really "AI" and not just CGI?
 
Drivers who don’t enter the box junction when turning right and their route is blocked only by oncoming traffic, despite this being the correct way to use them. It causes traffic to queue up longer behind them and lets fewer people through the junction each time.
 
People who do not understand merge in turn and either drive bumper to bumper with the car in front or put their foot down when you go to merge into the gap at the correct point and then go off it
 
MackemBob said:
Drivers who don’t enter the box junction when turning right and their route is blocked only by oncoming traffic, despite this being the correct way to use them. It causes traffic to queue up longer behind them and lets fewer people through the junction each time.
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Conversely, folk who don't understand to not enter a junction if the traffic ahead hasn't cleared it. Match days are a nightmare...
 
Trying to open a box of paracetamol. Lid stuck down feckin wrapped in instructions.
While I'm on who thought it was a good idea to limit the purchase of said boxes of paracetamol to two ?
I've just bought two at the supermarket and had to put a box of annadin back cos as the bloke on the till gleefully told me " it contains paracetamol "
I feel a headache coming on.
 
T_Bone said:
Trying to open a box of paracetamol. Lid stuck down feckin wrapped in instructions.
While I'm on who thought it was a good idea to limit the purchase of said boxes of paracetamol to two ?
I've just bought two at the supermarket and had to put a box of annadin back cos as the bloke on the till gleefully told me " it contains paracetamol "
I feel a headache coming on.
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If somebody bought 6 packs & offed themselves, supermarket culpable...
 
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